Apparently, America's space station toilet burst, leaking liters of water

When you live in space, you have to be prepared for everything, even collecting leaked water from the toilet.

Yes, that's exactly what astronauts currently living at the International Space Station (ISS) had to do when a toilet in the American module blew up.

It spilled gallons of water, prompting the crew to collect it.

Speaking to Sputnik News, a source from the Russian space industry claimed that the toilet in the US segment of the space station, aka Tranquility module, blew up.

"Astronauts separated the water supply line and the liquid leaked," the unnamed source claimed, noting that the incident happened on Friday. "Over 10 liters of water leaked before the problem was fixed."

And, they had to catch it!

Water molecules stick to each other, and without gravity in action, they clump together to form sphere-like shapes.

So, when water leaked from the toilet, the crew had to take towels and collect its lumps in the microgravity environment of the station.

Water is treated as an extremely precious resource at ISS; it is held in packets and even filtered from sweat and urine.